'''<span style="color:red;font-size:12pt;">Class is on hiatus until the new year. See you then!</span>'''

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[[File:Eachday.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Ball point pens can be beautiful too.]]

[[File:Eachday.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Ball point pens can be beautiful too.]]

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[[File:Colapen.png|300px|thumb|right|Colapen. Make a great pen from a soft-drink can.]]

===What===

===What===

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Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of pen use and introductions to calligraphic scripts. In later classes we can make our own [http://www.popcanpen.com/how_to/howto_make%20_pen.html cola pens], 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?

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Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of using a pen, exercises in making marks on the page, and introductions to forms of italic and blackletter. In later classes we'll make our own [http://www.popcanpen.com/how_to/howto_make%20_pen.html cola pens], 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?

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====What to bring====

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Recommended, but not required:

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* A phone/mp3/music player, headphones, and a few of your favorite songs

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* A ball point pen and blank printer paper

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* Any calligraphy pen, markers, ink you already have

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* Clothes that you don't mind getting a little ink on, a smock, or a very steady hand.

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I will have some pens and paper too, so don't sweat it if you come last minute.

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===When===

===When===

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Thursday Evenings at 6:00pm.

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Thursday Evenings from 7:00-9:00pm.

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''There will be '''no class on July 18th''' as I'll be out of town, but people are welcome to come and practice together.''

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Except on the 3rd Thursday of each month, when we have a shortened one-hour class. ([[Five Minutes of Fame]] starts at 8:00pm.)

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We are just getting started, so if this doesn't work for you, please [http://wanderingstan.com/contact contact me]. Sunday afternoons were another possibility.

First time visitors should read this for getting in: [[Getting Here | Explicit directions and how to get inside]]

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===Cost===

===Cost===

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Instruction is free! It's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.

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Instruction is free!

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And the materials are almost free--it's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.

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===Instructor===

===Instructor===

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[[User:wanderingstan|Stan James]], a longtime letter lover, current refuge from the startup world.

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[[User:wanderingstan|Stan James]], a longtime letter lover, current refugee from the startup world.

Revision as of 09:20, 6 February 2014

Class is on hiatus until the new year. See you then!

Ball point pens can be beautiful too.

Colapen. Make a great pen from a soft-drink can.

Contents

What

Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of using a pen, exercises in making marks on the page, and introductions to forms of italic and blackletter. In later classes we'll make our own cola pens, 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?

What to bring

Recommended, but not required:

A phone/mp3/music player, headphones, and a few of your favorite songs

A ball point pen and blank printer paper

Any calligraphy pen, markers, ink you already have

Clothes that you don't mind getting a little ink on, a smock, or a very steady hand.

I will have some pens and paper too, so don't sweat it if you come last minute.

When

Thursday Evenings from 7:00-9:00pm.

Except on the 3rd Thursday of each month, when we have a shortened one-hour class. (Five Minutes of Fame starts at 8:00pm.)

Where

Church classroom at Noisebridge. (In the far back, around the corner from the Kitchen.)

Cost

Instruction is free!

And the materials are almost free--it's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.

Instructor

Stan James, a longtime letter lover, current refugee from the startup world.